A known conflict expert at the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD)
Arif Yunus was arrested today when carrying food to his arrested wife
Leyla Yunus in the Baku Detention Center.
According to the lawyer Khalid Bagirov, Yunus was first taken to the 27th
police station in the Yasamal district. Then the lawyer was informed
that Yunus was brought to the Investigation Department for Serious
Crimes of the Prosecutor General’s Office to the inspector Ibrahim
Lemberansky.
The lawyer expressed fears that Arif Yunus will be also arrested.
On August 5 the Nasimi district court ruled decision to arrest for 3
months a conflictologist Arif Yunus. On July 30, he was taken under
police supervision, and his wife, the IMD Director Leyla Yunus, was
arrested. The family is charged with treason and other crimes.
According to the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the
arrest of Yunus is motivated by violation of the requirements of the
criminal procedural law. In particular, Yunus repeatedly, without police
permission, “left the territory of the district, where he lived, and
met with officials being prosecuted, or who may be subjected to
persecution, was engaged in Internet correspondence, spoke in an
interview with the media, which provided one-sided, false information,”
reads the statement of the Prosecutor Office.
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